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World War II Code Breaker by Peter Lerangis Time Machine 25 8/7/01 5:03 PM Page 1 Time Machine 25 8/7/01 5:03 PM Page 2 This book is your passport into time. Can you survive World War II? Turn the page to find out. Time Machine 25 8/7/01 5:03 PM Page 3 World War II Code Breaker by Peter Lerangis illustrated by Alex Nino A Byron Preiss Book Time Machine 25 8/7/01 5:03 PM Page 4 For my father, Nicholas P. Lerangis Technical Sergeant, U.S. Army Signal Corps Pacific Theater, 1943–1945 With thanks and love Copyright @ 2001, 1984 by Byron Preiss Visual Publications “Time Machine” is a registered trademark of Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc. Registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark office. Cover painting by Steve Fastner. Cover design by Alex Jay/Studio J. An ipicturebooks.com ebook ipicturebooks.com 24 West 25th St., 11th fl. Y, NY 10010 The ipicturebooks World Wide Web Site Address is: http://www.ipicturebooks.com Original ISBN: 0-553-28157-7 eISBN: 1-59019-090-4 Time Machine 25 8/7/01 5:03 PM Page 5 ATTENTION TIME TRAVELER! This book is your time machine. Do not read it through from beginning to end. In a moment you will receive a mission, a special task that will take you to another time period. As you face the dan- gers of history, the Time Machine often will give you options of where to go or what to do. This book also contains a Data Bank to tell you about the age you are going to visit. You can use this Data Bank to travel more safely through time. Or you can take your chances without reading it. It is up to you to decide. In the back of this book is a Data File. It contains hints to help you if you are not sure what choice to make. The following symbol appears next to any choices for which there is a hint in the Data File. To complete your mission as quickly as possible, you may wish to use the Data Bank and the Data File together. There is one correct end to this Time Machine mission. You must reach it or risk being stranded in time! Time Machine 25 8/7/01 5:03 PM Page 6 THE FOUR RULES OF TIME TRAVEL As you begin your mission, you must observe the following rules. Time Travelers who do not follow these rules risk being stranded in time. 1. You must not kill any person or animal. 2. You must not try to change history. Do not leave anything from the future in the past. 3. You must not take anybody when you jump in time. Avoid disappearing in a way that scares people or makes them suspicious. 4. You must follow instructions given to you by the Time Machine. You must choose from the options given to you by the Time Machine. Time Machine 25 8/7/01 5:03 PM Page 7 YOUR MISSION Your mission is to travel back to World War II and help crack the top secret enemy codes. To prove you have accomplished your mission, you must bring back two decoded messages—one German and one Japanese—that helped the Allies win the war. “Attack at dawn!” “U-boats now approaching!” During World War II, both sides communicated via telegraph messages. But the messages were in code to confuse the enemy, so they looked more like this: “WQSEU PMPIZ TLJJU LRBID!” To decode these complex messages, the Allies had to work round-the-clock. Even the slightest delay might mean the loss of lives to a surprise attack. If it weren’t for a brilliant international team of code breakers, the Allies might never have won the war. To accomplish your mis- sion, you will brave terrible hazards. You will have to keep your wits about you to survive the horror and danger of World War II. To activate the Time Machine, click here. Time Machine 25 8/7/01 5:03 PM Page 8 TIME TRAVEL ACTIVATED. Stand by for Equipment. Click Here Time Machine 25 8/7/01 5:03 PM Page 9 EQUIPMENT The code breakers are a small, secret group, and most members know each other. The number one piece of equipment you will need to infiltrate this select group is your brain. You will wear a standard, Army-issue set of khaki pants and shirt and a pair of spit-polished black shoes. You may find yourself behind enemy lines, in combat, and in horrendous weather. So be sure to take a backpack filled with the following things, wrapped in water-tight plastic: 1. combat boots and fatigues 2. a German uniform 3. a dark, nondescript pair of pants and a spare T-shirt in case of bad weather 4. maps of Europe and the Pacific 5. a small camera to photograph secret messages 6. identification papers with made-up names and serial numbers (one each for England, the United States, and Germany). 7. the following data cards, which list the important events in World War II: EUROPE 1939 September 1: Hitler invades Poland. 4: Britain and France declare war on Germany. 28: Poland surrenders. 1940 May 10: The Germans begin a massive attack westward, captur Time Machine 25 8/7/01 5:03 PM Page 10 Time Machine 25 8/7/01 5:03 PM Page 11 ing the Netherlands and Belgium. June 3: The Luftwaffe, the German air force, bombs Paris. 5: The Battle of France begins. 24: France surrenders and is divided into the occupied (north) and unoccupied zones; both zones cooperate with the Nazis. July 10: The Battle of Britain begins. The Luftwaffe attacks the southern coast of England. 15: The Germans begin Operation Eagle, a plan to flush out and destroy British Royal Air Force (RAF) planes. September 7: The Luftwaffe begins to bomb London (the Blitz). The bombing continues until May 1941. 15: The RAF wins decisively over the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain. November 4: The Luftwaffe bombs Coventry, England. December 18: Hitler issues plans to invade Russia. 1941 March 24: Nazi Field Marshal Rommel begins a North African offensive in Libya. April 29: Rommel runs out of supplies on the Egyptian border; the German drive is halted. June 22: Hitler’s massive attack on the Soviet Union begins, sev eral months late. October 2: The Germans invade Moscow. December Time Machine 25 8/7/01 5:03 PM Page 12 7: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. 8: The U.S. declares war on Japan. 10: Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S. 1942 June 25–27: England’s Prime Minister Churchill and the United States’ President Roosevelt decide to attack the Germans in North Africa. They also authorize atom bomb research. July 21: Again a victim of lack of supplies, Rommel’s offensive sputters. October 23: British General Montgomery starts the Battle of El Alamein against Rommel. November 4: Rommel starts to retreat. 8: Eisenhower, the new Allied Commander, begins Operation Torch with massive landings in North Africa. December 25: Defeated by the Russians in Stalingrad, the Germans begin to retreat. 1943 January 24: Hitler forbids the Nazi generals’ plea to surrender in Russia. 30: The RAF begins a major air raid on Berlin. February 2: The Germans surrender to the Russians. 14: Rommel sets back the Allies at Kasserine Pass. April 7: Eisenhower’s forces meet up with Montgomery’s in Tunisia. May Time Machine 25 8/7/01 5:03 PM Page 13 12: Rommel flees North Africa, leaving his troops to sur render. July 10: Led by field commanders Patton and Montgomery, the Allies invade Sicily. August 18: The RAF bombs German rocket-bomb factories in Peenemunde. September 10: The Germans seize Rome. 1944 June 4: The Germans abandon Rome to the Allies. 6: The Allies launch a massive D-Day offensive (Operation Overlord) on the northern coast of France. The Germans are slow to respond. 13: German V1 rocket bombs land on London. August 1: General George Patton’s army breaks across France toward Germany. 25: The Allied French retake Paris. September 3: The British seize Brussels and Antwerp; the Germans retreat from Finland. 8: New, sophisticated German rocket bombs (V2) fall on London. 12–14: The Americans cross the German border and capture the first German city (Aachen). The British push through Holland. December 17: The Germans retaliate by pushing through Belgium and Luxembourg. The Battle of the Bulge begins. 31: The Allies win the Battle of the Bulge; there are 100,000 casualties on both sides, 50,000 Germans are captured. Time Machine 25 8/7/01 5:03 PM Page 14 1945 February 13–14: The Allies bomb Dresden, Germany, killing 135,000. March 7: The Americans thwart the German demolition team, pour across Remagen Bridge over the Rhine, and capture Cologne. April 10: Eisenhower’s troops seize the concentration camp at Buchenwald and see the horrors of the “death camps” for the first time. 12: President Roosevelt dies; Harry Truman succeeds him. 16: The Russians attack Berlin from the east. 30: Hitler commits suicide; a week later, the remaining Nazis surrender. May 8: V-E (Victory-Europe) Day. JAPAN 1940 September 26: Despite warnings from the U.S., Japan invades Indochina. 29: U.S. Marines start building new defenses on Midway Island. 1941 July 26: Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in the U.S. and halts trade with Japan. August 17: Roosevelt tells the Japanese ambassador that the U.S.
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